Whatever happened to… Pepper Pad

The hot handheld computer offered a taste of the future

Large touchscreen The 8.4-inch SVGA colour LCD touchscreen had a resolution of 800 x 600 and it could be operated using a stylus Gamepad The Pepper Pad had a GameBoy-like D-pad, making it a cool handheld games console that could run retro emulators Built-in apps There were apps for email, radio and a remote control, taking advantage of an Intel PXA270 CPU and 256MB of RAM Control buttons The top lines of the split Qwerty keyboard contained the volume and screen brightness controls, as well functions for playing media Scroll wheel Just sitting above the right-side stereo speaker was the built-in scroll wheel, making it easy to read web pages Filling the gap between the PDA and the iPad, the Linux-based Pepper Pad may not have been pocket-friendly but it…

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